Kalista vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Kalista
based on 588 Kalista vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against K'Sante
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Advice to Win Against K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Kalista vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Kalista vs. K'Sante matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than K'Sante. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kalista usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Kalista or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually fairs equally well when taking on K'Sante, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes an ok counter to K'Sante.
While Kalista does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Kalista also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kalista into K'Santeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista vs K'Sante matchups, K'Sante is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a decent counter for K'Sante. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kalista against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kalista in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista often picks up a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kalista versus K'Sante build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing K'Sante as Kalista, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kalista vs K'Sante face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat K'Sante as Kalista are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.